Frustrations rise after 9 year old girl attacked by unleashed dog in Chicago: ‘She was traumatized’
by Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune
May 09, 2024
4 minutes
CHICAGO — Nine-year-old Natalie Sieracki spent her sister’s softball game cartwheeling on the grass in Horner Park Saturday evening. She didn’t notice the large, unleashed dog nearby until it attacked her.
When she broke away from the animal, she raced toward her parents in the bleachers, screaming and crying. Her back was covered in bite marks. Blood gushed from her leg.
“She was traumatized,” her mom, Marci Sieracki, recalled Tuesday. “She was writhing in pain. It was just awful.”
The attack has left some residents with mounting frustrations toward unleashed dogs in public. Just a few hundred feet from the attack is
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